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April 17, 2019 5:30 pm
So that about it. There are storms all around us how we keep our peace and even joy in the midst of the storm is time for the line of fire with your host activist and author, international speaker and theologian Dr. Michael Brown your voice of moral cultural and spiritual revolution Michael Brown is the director of the coalition of conscience and president of fire school of ministry get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH. That's 866-34-TRUTH here again is Dr. Michael Brown. I hope you're ready to be encouraged. I hope you're ready to be strengthened in your faith. Welcome to the line of fire. This is Michael Brown my absolute delight to be with you. Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to join us on radio or podcast our lifestream on Facebook or YouTube watching in some other means, or listing some of the means welcome to the broadcast again foam eyes are open is it's not Friday or Friday you got questions. We got answers but we do it whenever possible. So I will be opening the phone lines wide today, but two things I want to talk about share with you as well, but any question of any kind. If you differ with me if you want to challenge me on something if you need clarification, 866-348-7884 that remains the number to call or write as I was praying and thinking last night about today's broadcast. It struck me that it would be important to bring the word of encouragement to all of you in the midst of the storms of life as long as human beings have been on this planet. There have been storms of life.
There have been natural storms and there been spiritual storms and sometimes the storms are pretty intense at 80. Sometimes they're so intense that even if you eat, you think your hope is that we can barely we can make it through it so intense in the midst of it can be very very difficult.
How can we walk in peace in the midst of storms now let me start with the principal. Jesus tells his disciples in John's Gospel, the 14th chapter that he gives us his peace, joy, understand the significance of that piece that he gives us is a supernatural peace. It's his own peace. It's as if he takes her hand and suddenly what he's feeling. We're feeling minutes of extraordinary thing to consider. Now, step back and ask yourself about Jesus about you shoe our Savior and our Messiah was there any time where when he was on this earth was he sits enthroned next to his father in heaven. Is there any time that he is worried all know what's good. It is there any time and he is full of fear and anxiety. I was, not is the son of God. Obviously not. Can we say that he enjoys perfect peace.
Yes, he's grieved over sin he's grieved over his creation being hurt and injure his grieved over deception lies that pull people away from the light in the truth grieved over human bloodshed and evil and and he rejoices over good that happens, people getting set free and coming to know him, but is he ever fearful and anxious obviously not. So he gives us his peace.how deep is that piece so on the Sea of Galilee.
When is out with his disciples number of them experienced fishermen when tell his disciples and there's a terrible storm and they think they can drown and and I've never been in a terrible storm of the Sea of Galilee. But I've been staying on this of seizure of the Sea of Galilee. When the winds were gusting and in the ways returning I thought while that would be pretty intense to be out there in the water, but in the midst of this, he sleeping why because he knows that all is well and I would say my understanding is that he saw earlier in the day exactly what was going to happen. He was quite aware storms coming.
He was quite aware he was going go sleep was quite aware the disciples would panic and he was quite aware. He rebuked the wind and the waves that they would be astonished and he would rebuke them for their lack of faith, here's the thing. He was never worried he was never anxious. He had no reason to be.
Why only knew the end from the beginning. He knew the outcome was going to be totally fine. He in fact he knew the outcome would be to the glory of God and that hundreds of millions or billions of people would read about it, learn about it in the future that very count so let's say that you are in a severe trial of your faith. It looks like you lose your business, you lose your home. It is the impact could be so great, you're afraid he could sever your marriage because the two of you. You and your spouse have been under such pressure that the relationship is just fragile and your you think you really go down and I don't know that I'm ever going to get back out from under this and suddenly the Lord brings a picture to your mind and it is you with your wife and your kids living in a beautiful home in a beautiful neighborhood looks to be like 1015 years down the line and their big smiles on people's faces and a sense of of the presence of the Lord there and you got was I hate you like it. All this this current thing they crash and burn. But you come out of it even better. Your family can be stronger and and you will be blessed materially as well if you got that future picture. Suddenly, a lot of the current fear and anxiety with disappear would not so God knows the future. God knows the end from the beginning.
Maybe there's some going on in your life and your being severely tempted you know God called you to minister and do his work, but you're being severely tempted batter you think man I'm gonna blow I'm gonna disqualify my life. I'm a meta-destroy everything and I'm gonna bring reproach to the name of the Lord. I don't feel strong enough to resist. The Lord gives you a picture in there you are in the mission field, preaching the gospel.
Five, 10 years down the line 20 years down the line of people being saved is a mental picture that's like all of us can keep Gus can help whatever's going on. Now God's going to give you a way of escaping on the, strong because I see them stronger than that. I am now you see friends when God speaks to your soul always. While he knows what he's doing. It's not just me being optimistic everything is good to come out all right as you go in for surgery.
The doctor said is 100 chance you make a like hey if it's gonna be alright no son is human optimism a cheerleading it's it's God saying yeah you about the spot you get to be the one I will hundred you come out this fine or it's God telling you it may look dark for little while but trust me, this can be so much light on the other end of the tunnel. You'll be glad you went to the top if you had to do it.
Overall though you hated going through the tunnel. You know it was in your best interest to go through just like the workup might have if you don't work out, and when you are who we are either pushing yourself hard enough you got a trainer pushing you right it's it's it's not fun, and in the natural you want a quick but first you push yourself or your push with the group you get your trainer profusely really can't just quit without being a wimp, but you also know that afterwards you can be glad you did.
And afterwards you go to be stronger and sharper and be healthier because you did so what we need to know and understand is that if our lives are yielded to the Lord. If you know Kate Fama perfect, but I really want to serve those talking to the Lord last night and ready when those infinitely far from perfect as God. All right for all of us but I put myself atop the list and I was put us in God.
You know, I want you more than anything you know deep down more than anything, I want you I want to please you. If that's your heart really to the courier being what I love your own serve you with the syndrome is a 20 that all things are in all things that the either translate to different tax and all all things work together for the good of those that loved the called according to his purpose or in all things God works for the good same overall meaning things themselves maybe evil things themselves maybe bed things themselves may be ugly, but in all those things God is working for the good of those who you love him contact you safely like I do love you. You know I do love you, as you say somebody*workspace of his goodness, all things work together for the good of those who love him, who are called according to his purpose and that means that if your heart set on him in difficult circumstances come in hard times, if you honor him and worship him, you will grow more, you will become more like Jesus, you will be stronger in your faith you will be more able to serve others how I was thinking of some things that I went through in years past and they were really self-imposed. There was wrong decisions I made wrong choices I made. There's nobody to blame but me and and I wish I did make certain choices or decisions say certain things because they they brought pain on me and others. Think about it over the course of 47 years in the Lord is this guy happen and yet what came out of it.
Certain breaking certain humbling certain refining a certain thinking far less of myself that I might have before and recognizing to the re-any good thing that comes out of use all his grace all his glory was not right. I hate those things that went through, especially because there were self-imposed wrong choices wrong words wrong decisions, but I'm glad Amram today. In other words, I would've rather gotten here without that path, but I don't know that I would have.
In other words, the breaking the humbling different things that God did produce fruit. He's a Redeemer. So even if you've blown it and you've made wrong choices because of which your health is shattered because with your ministries hurt because of which you lost your finances because of which your kids are in rebellion because of which your marriage is under attack. If you humble yourself before God and and say God I blown it. But your Redeemer take what I've done wrong and turned around for good, made the things that were stumbling blocks become stepping stones me.
The failures become lessons for future growth.
So choose how you maintain peace in the midst of the storm.
First you cry out to God, earnestly as craziest things around. Dodger Maroc, you must rank your my refuge matrix of real he can write them in the midst of it, just let you know I'm with you, and second, he gives you the word of assurance he's going to work it for the good he gives you that word of assurance.
He has the power to do that so that you can get up with Paul on the boat out the shipwreck acts 27 and say don't be afraid everybody's gonna make it.
That's with the Lord told me. I believe I believe God, you start to exercise your faith. You start to praise him, you start worship it'll seem crazy and counterintuitive, but you do it anyway but I praise your faithful praise your good. I praise you turn everything for good appraiser.
Everything Satan means for evil. The world means for evil even. I mean if you look as I submit my life to you in repentance and humility. You turn these things around for good these days. Please review this is the comebacker going straight to the photocells a great time. If all the questions a 663487880 number by the Expo line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown your voice and more cultural and spiritual revolution.
Here again is Dr. Michael Brown are each six times are open. Listen tomorrow very important interview Catholic scholar E. Michael Jones is been called an anti-Semite by different Jewish leaders. I agree. His writings and positions are anti-Semitic.
We asked him to come on the air to have a discussion with me. We can explain why he believes that the wrong accusation. We had a very candid conversation. We recorded it last week you will get to see it and here it on tomorrow's broadcast. Trust me, this is one thoroughly through Thursday broadcast. You do not want to miss. I so appreciate Dr. Jones being willing to come on and have a candid conversation with me. He was all too glad to do it 866-34-TRUTH. Let's go to Joe in Chicago. Welcome to the line of fire God are you doing Dr. Brown will need to speak up till okay there you guys are doing well, okay, great, big, dark brown, quick question about the brother Chris Bates new book on predestination you forwarded it.
I'm sure you're familiar with the correct is a debate. The debate on predestination. You are correct okay so he was on the unbelievable show like flowers.
They had a back-and-forth and he presented the case for all predestination forgot to control but Nick meticulous details by looking through Joseph and brothers I know you're familiar with this argument, but the unique thing that he brought up with what he thought was a slam dunk was the Hebrew because the same wording pension is used for the brothers evil and that as it is for God and how could God intend good to come out of it if you didn't and can be evil because the grammar support do you buy into that. Could I get lost.
The people go to grandpa. Thank you for your time yet so I appreciate that in first very much appreciate Chris having a debate with a colleague about predestination.
I was asked to consider writing a forward to the book, so I they got the contents to me as early as possible. I will. I went through much of the book the back-and-forth I thought okay II feel they're both doing a good job of presenting their opinions and their doing in a way that's forceful it civil that damning each other to help over it and just thought I'm glad that I could do the forward for an just like when people asked me Joe about my views on predestination election is the best thing is go online and watch a debate I did with Dr. White. Dr. James were there was let layout both sides and then let someone evaluate both sides is presented as best as we can and let people sorted out. So I'm so glad Chris and his colleague did that and I think it's a great book for people go to get the different perspectives. But let's let's just go over to to the book of Genesis and I just got a clear my screen here, the book of Genesis.
So Joseph is sold into slavery by his brother. Some of his brothers wanted to kill him of the said no, no, that's not in the meantime he get it and that was the intent of one risk. In the meantime you get sold into slavery. Rather: the settlements of slavery. But God has a plan through it right in God's plan is that he's going to save many people through it so the brothers come to him and their their concern and he says in it, will they say look, you know where your servants now. The dads that please don't take vengeance on us right and if he says so. Genesis chapter 50 verse 21st. I'll read it and you can James and all of it.
In the Hebrew is for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good.
In order to bring about as it is this day to save many people alive. So reading it in Hebrew right so this without love attempt cost of time a lot so you intended evil against me Elohim cost of the towbar but God intended it for good Lamont.
The mother say Lyons has that of the Huffy out on Rolf's armor screams covered there for a moment so that they think Hebrew is just like the English you intended it for evil against me disaster against me, God intended it for good.
Honestly, I have to hear Chris's argument. I know he's a thoughtful guy but I don't see anything whatsoever in Hebrew that would make any slamdunk point of any kind. You had one intention God had another intention so so here's the deal.
Did God, I clarify it like requires argument started to rub yeah sure, go ahead okay so so his is a linchpin point is that be. It is this thing so when we change the intention for good or God were now changing the grammar because it would, according to him, God intended evil just as much of the brothers.
But then he brought about good from it, but it is but thank God that I want people to be.brothers going to his point meticulous determined yeah III present and thank you, thank you for clarifying that right so the cost of the. The at the end.
What's that referring to the it's you that's referring back to the evil or the disaster. Now here's the thing what what when talk about intent. What's the plan for this right. What's the what's the goal for this we want to get out of this right so very simple.
God sees with these men are going to do. He knows their hearts right and and God is so sovereign and brilliant that he's a trillion steps ahead of all of us all the time right is not like this to brilliant chess player that can predict the you can predict from the beginning of time to the end of based on knowing human behavior in nature, etc. even if he didn't get directly involved with course he does so he knows with the brothers going to do. They have one plan for yet another plan for that's that's all the Hebrew say your plan.
In doing this was one thing. My plan in you doing at this say God did it right. What when you when you did this. This was your plan when you are doing it. This was my plan so the grammatical object is the same. This okay your intent was this my intent was that I let you do it because I had another plan. I let you do know I don't believe God moved on. The brothers that they were like Joseph, our body, so glad to see these as new, no, no, that's not what you do instead of turning your heart and now you thrown into a pit unit to sell him to the Midianites to the Ishmaelites and that's what got no no of course not.
So that to me is reading something into the Hebrew way beyond what was your intent in doing it was God's intent in you doing it. It doesn't say God did it. This is a God planned it, but rather God's intent in this act who carried out the act.
The brothers brothers cardiac, and especially that the Hebrew, fundamentally means something bad when God does its judgment when human beings do it. It's evil it's it's different sides of the same point as God does not do evil, but either way, you have a plan but God had a bigger plan so he let you do XYZ. It's like someone else, yet he let you go out and get drunk and he let you crack your car up and let you break both your legs so that you ended up not going to the NFL, but he had a greater plan. Did God make you drunk.
Note that he crack up your car no, but he's a sovereign Redeemer and what people mean for evil God uses for that's the testimony of the whole Scripture with people mean for evil God uses for good at certain times, he will specifically intervene like farrow who hardens his heart over and over the gods is fine under give you over to your sin in your stubbornness and rebellion and and hunger on the heart your heart even more so you can do that with the general pattern is we do what we do and then he works in the midst of it to carry out his will, because he sovereign. If he needs to turn and manipulate something he's God he can do whatever he wants, but that's not his normal pattern. That's why he holds us responsible if you manipulated everything in history. He could rightly hold us responsible because we make choices and bear the consequences of those actions holds us responsible but again, to emphasize once more I find zero in the Hebrew which is something other pretty well fit to back up the point that Chris is making Lawless a Chris if you hear this law respect you, buddy. I say it doesn't work so there's your answer.
Thank you so much brought joy to my heart divided. Bear and I thought it was a bit scratching the conduct of the God becomes the author of evil, which in his book he says� Secondarily not primarily a gun shoot with the customer going to trigger that's where light was told to spit the fire on that as well. Thank you sir, you bet and I'm thrilled that the basting had an and discussions are being had and that's all for the good 866-34-TRUTH Michelle in Virginia. Walking to the line of fire.
Hello how are you doing well. Thank you. I'm so glad that I get to talk to you. I had struggled for many many many years of one test after the other and I've been a Christian I been faithful through everything I when I became a born-again Christian about you know I 20 years ago or something. I came out of the Catholic Church. It took me 10 years to, you know, kind of override that in an and I became a born-again Christian. When I did.
Now, instead of life getting better.
One thing after the other happened just you know out of my control. Bad and the first thing was my husband turned on me because he didn't like my faith and the second thing was I ended up losing my job because I was attacked by a man who sexually assaulted me and I slapped him and so I lost my 20 year career. I lost my house. Then I had both my cats die and I had a brain hemorrhage and I was in excellent condition and after the brain hemorrhage I got addicted to the opiates. Then I became addicted to heroin and I thought that for five years. I had no way to get off the opiates.
Are they heroin me. I didn't have any insurance any any party to help me so that a grazing show just just pause right there. Even through it and you're not done telling the story. We got a break come back to Mr. Silva's prayer for her right now is a short break and if you can assist with the prayer those places those words of her rights.
They were there. Michelle will be right back with the line of fire with your host Dr. Michael Brown get into the line of fire now by calling 866-34-TRUTH paradigm is Dr. Michael Brown drawing his friends phone lines are open any question you like to ask today ones are open 866-34-TRUTH all of our friends just joining us as we do daily in the DFW area on radio, so glad to have you along. We're talking right now the caller from Virginia Michelle and Michelle you didn't get to go through all of the hardships you painted enough picture of what you've been through in all these years since you turned to follow Jesus and you could read promises of the Bible and think where are they, and where the answers to prayer as as I was just reflecting for moment Michelle wanted to pray with you there was the first thing that struck me, which is the only reason that you're alive today and have faith is because God has sustained you that you everything you've gone through so far has been intended to take you out and destroy you if you gonna live that you would live hating God or denying God. Otherwise, that you would have died prematurely. The very fact that you're still alive and that you still have faith as a testimony to God's grace, I will say that lightly. That's not just my slander try to answer and saying I still believe God in the midst of this is a tremendous testimony.
We know all we know.
Michelle ultimately that your greatest dreams. The most amazing things you ever asked for before exceeded by being in God's direct presence forever and ever and ever and sometimes we see a lot of that in this world.
Sometimes we see very little in our ministry over and Indians of report communities and there there literally on the edge of starvation and their believers and they just have enough for each day. And there's the probably can have a rough life in this world know what I'm saying it's the probably can be Poor and and and have a rough life in this world and yet the joy of the Lord sustains them in the midst of it and what I'd encourage you to do and and will you pray for a minute again. I don't say any of the sprightly up work for years, the Comintern, the book of Job. At this Wrestling with things that God would sensitize my heart more to people who suffer and go through sudden hardship is not know whatever going through my life as a spec compared to what you've gone through, but what I want to encourage you to do is in the midst of wilderness difficulties and pain. Thank God that he's faithful each trouble you look at instead of looking at the pain of it. Look at how God got you through me loss that you lost a job with many years but you haven't ever starved to death. You haven't living out on the street you you you add all these things happen. You still have your sanity.
So I would encourage you first.
The every day spent time thanking God that he's faithful.
That is never left you that his promises are true, even though many promises you have experienced the reality of yet that and that he's made you a deeper stronger person having gone through this and if if you would recognize that he builds character through suffering that no Paul the apostle went through things.
None of us can imagine your beatings from sitting as alien floggings installing shipwreck about being beheaded, and so on, and it was it was always, it was just every 1000 life and he's the one who wrote that that we have peace with God, having been justified by faith.
But then he talks about how we grow. It's through trial and test and suffering in the net brings a hope that nothing can take away so I encouraged him to you. Been working my life for you have you have never left me. Otherwise I wouldn't have made it.
You may be a Tyrone Harrison but not strong enough at night yet so I would thank him I would daily, spend time thanking him and praising him even if the more you do it the darker it gets.
Because until you start to put joy in your heart and you start to see light shining in the darkness.
And then you'll realize that he's given you an ability to help people who are also suffering an arm around them and to be there for their so is it all right if we pray for them shall somehow actually all right father, I thank you for your daughter. She is your daughter and you held onto her all this time. Lord I pray that you would flutter heart with peace and joy in the midst of storms in the midst of difficulties even with a sense of purpose and with a sense of destiny, with the recognition that she is more than a conqueror and you and father, bless her life with the riches of your presence and your goodness and your love.
She be flooded with a sense of joy. May she realized she had failed that she's held onto you as you have kept her May her life be a testimony of the power of blessing in the midst of hardship and difficulty in Jesus name, amen. Hey Michelle, thank you for opening your heart today and what I spoke about the very beginning of the broadcast piece of the stormy that be yours may see some real sunshine. The days ahead. Thank you for opening up with us today appreciated 866-34-TRUTH.
Let's go to Noah in North Carolina. Welcome to the line of fire for Dr. Brown will not open another door you went back big thing on about the pretrip I striven you even got a book out this.
I haven't read it yet to write about worrying about but doubt about story short, I was right on Dr. jaybird negate upfront up your own where I'm coming from all all this part you know the elegant computers, but the pretrip bowstring I know not the viewpoint you government well you will really be a rapture or ventilator own, but I never understood people the viewpoint you come in from if you believe that this party or the Jewish people go through like the goat the every bio go through all those seven years. I guess the final when Jesus comes back to eliminate everyone you know.
But the devil down.
All that will all go do that and that viewpoint you believe are the minute you believe you know the that the post rib is no first thing is, as you said, reading the Bible. First and foremost is the most important and we would all agree pre-and post rib that we should live every day ready to meet the Lord as we don't have a guarantor given of another day, and that we should also know whatever comes our way in this world that I can keep us and protect us. So I understand there is one second coming, it's not two events separated by seven years but one second coming and that as all hell is breaking loose on the earth with people speak of tribulation, great tribulation that God is also moving powerfully in all the earth, just like many countries now were persecution is the heaviest. The church is growing. The most so that all healthcare break loose on the world of the wrath of God is can be poured out at the end on on on sinful man, God will protect us from his wrath, but like every other generation were promised, trouble, difficulty with our brothers and sisters being slaughtered daily in Nigeria are being persecuted and beaten in India there going through tribulation testing right now that's that's our lot in this world and at the and of this relation. Jesus comes as one second coming, and he appears for the whole world to see.
It's a public event and were caught up to meet him and escort him to the earth where he sets up his kingdom.
That's what I understand strongest teachers yes or okay they think of my viewpoint out to be lightly light like that I realize about the drives around the world there already going pretty much dwell on earth.
Unfortunately, like that and I know I know you are thing went down elderly people but I get going to be a misled oil either going to be unit get out of all her with a finger lay about the lack of glee with job-related bars is going through all that, I don't know I get that done lightly from what I know what's gonna happen like that, you know what date with the Babylonians did to the children is when it passed her head. Jones at the get the rock will be nothing compare the hello, the believers will go through in that timeframe. I guess it's easier want to believe. The other alternative. You know, like, well, you get rapture doubt we get really out of all that died above the horizon.
I really believe jolly line that have to be what you should. We should be our Anthony's anyway begging everyone, but you will drive but you know here's the big thing tribulation is not to hell. Tribulation is a fraction hell. The vast majority of the human race will not go through great jubilation.
At the end of the age. There was the best majority human race can come and go long before then. Right. So the goal is not get saved do for the tribulation. If you're boarding anything is hell.
That's were avoiding get saved repent of sin and come to know the one true God but is not get saved before the great tribulation number seven in the gospel and the more that doesn't apply to anybody except those living right is that the tail end of of human history and the other thing is here.
People been burned alive. You can get burned any hotter. The antichrist doesn't starve to death or buried alive or or be tortured to death or have your children taken for you and kill them.
And this is happening all the time. It has happened around the world for centuries. Why should we think that we get exempt. America's been very unique and and very little persecution, but the ties rising of hostility could lead to bloodshed would honor the Lord. Either way, hate Noah.
Thank you for calling and being candid, 866-34-TRUTH.
Let's go to Donna in West Virginia.
Welcome to the line of fire. Dr. Brown hello my question about feeding your prayer language and at that part you think it worked out that the prayer language and speaking in tongue that would be considered two different things correct what will know when when the Bible speaks about speak in tongues. That's the scholar pillars that that the New Testament never uses the term prayer language. But Paul refers to praying in tongues in first Corinthians 14, though I understand is when the same thing on certain occasions like asked to God can uniquely inspire multiple human languages to be spoken. But what's with Paul refers refers Griffin's 14 is a language that only God understands but indicates the question is receiving that speaking in tongues praying in the spirit.
The last time I set up question would be normal to receive your current language. I like your hand or even make pray for you and pray for up to four or five day come on it been there) just opened her mouth to start to babble on that normally how you receive your prayer language like no that's let's have some people do it. That's how some of us Pentecostals. Charismatics do it now.
Turn off your mind just repeat this phrase so that that's that's the flesh try to get a spiritual result, people may mean well, but that I must try to get the spirituals is not prayer over some for several minutes, that's fine. But what I would say is this Donna, but receiving spirit to the laying on of hands is absolutely biblical.
I was just praying a prayer meeting myself when the Holy Spirit moved on me, but what I would say is you asked God accordance with Luke 1113 that if you asked for.
The Holy Spirit will give it is ready and willing us for dressing for this manifestation of the spirit and then just began to speak out of your heart the most being "open your mouth praise and worship, and as you do so you will find yourself praising him, worshiping him in a new language so folks are trying to get you to do that. The fleshly way. Thanks. It's the line of fire with your host activist author internationals leader and theologian Dr. Michael Brown voice of more cultural and spiritual revolution get into the line of fire now by calling 8664 through here again is Dr. Michael Brown as soon as you have a minute to my website Esther Brown, the Lord, I wrote two articles last night. One why we can't be silent Road with a burning heart. I believe it will burn in your heart as you read it why we can't just sit back and be silent. Got a presidential candidate was aggressively preaching a false gospel who's pushing back against Christians who hold to biblical values whose who is flaunting his same-sex relationship and sing the wrong if you don't accept this as a Christian I encourage you to read why we cannot be silent, and then another article you.
You'll be shaking your head is really you gotta be kidding me. YouTube approves the radical and disapproves the mundane. You'll you won't believe complaining about, but you gotta read the article you won't believe friends that will put out pretty radical video and I think YouTube is over the allow this to be monetized as the one you love is forever ties and we get a notice.
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We talk about that.
I complaining of just you gotta read the fine and then a reminder that were doing regular exclusive YouTube catchers are an excellent tomorrow. This is me on Friday Friday after our regular Q&A broadcast on a stay on just a few minutes after four we close Eastern standard on the stay on and just answer questions are YouTube viewers can be Friday immediately after our broadcast 866-34-TRUTH. Let's go to Stephen in Delaware walking to the line of fire. Hi Dr. Brown how are you doing very well thank you sir. I wanted say that I appreciate your content that you put out, and information.
I just recently found you within the last week or two after he did that one Benjamin. Okay, yeah, yeah, I wanted to ask you something about my particular situation and see if you feel like I'm going in the right path with the decisions I've made so wanted it so let me start from the beginning I was sexually molested by an adult male.
When I was a child and how Young's I was eight. Okay, so sorry yet so after that Dana going through you know high school that you have been my teenage years and whatnot. I was somewhat confused what you know my my sexuality and you know I knew I was raised as a Christian man time.
We went to church every every Sunday no Bible 30 everyone today so that what you know, I know that that is something that you know it against my faith. And you know what you know it says in the Bible.
So what I want to get to is that I went through pretty much most of my 20s under the identity of living. As you know I gave male so I decided I would say within the last couple years I started to build my relationship back with God and following the life that Christ had for me so I do acknowledge that that is you know that is a sin against God, and that is not something that you know I should be involved with and I did. Now that I've been celibate for the last four years, I don't engage in any of you know they ask you, nor do what I want to be in a relationship with the same effect. My question for you is now that which you say that I have any further to go. Or would you say that I'm I'm in the path of, you know, and in God's eyes of a what I should be in terms of how ideal that this season's first let me commend you for not going with the whole tide of society today and the false gospel that you can practice homosexuality and follow Jesus.
At the same time, let me first commend you for wanting God more and wanting him enough to say no to those things. And yes to him, even though it's meant celibacy for you so I have other friends in similar situations to Stephen. They love the Lord their lies are very folder celibate, and there there thrilled with their lives there there fulfilled lives and their fruitful lives. Now the calling is to be holy and that's what you sought to do.
However, if, in your heart you say Laura, I would. I would love to be attracted to the opposite sex. That something I would desire, then that's in the pray about and in their folks with good counseling discipling experience that can help someone grow in that area and so I am good friends on all ends of the spectrum, Stephen. I have some that say it comes by nature. The way I feel it meets deep in me.
I still feel attracted to the same sex but I say no to it. I don't yield to it. I'm living a godly life and in their happiness, celibate of other friends that over period of time saw their same-sex attractions deeply diminish until they were attracted to some of the opposite sex that they married and there there happily married, and then I know others that miraculously went from homosexual to heterosexual. Some folks close to mentor. I know what happened to them and they were the been happily married for many many years. So all those different things can happen when I would say is number one, you've honored the Lord in your serving him. That's what he requires of you right that it's not up to the beat down every all I had a wrong thought I must be a bad person. Note because you love the Lord, you say no to those things you don't pursue them. Looking on the Internet. Pursue them to go out the relationship to pursue them because you love the Lord and that's what really matters to him if if you think you want to find out more about this deeper change possible then you could just visit restored hope network.org is the restored hope network.org you can interact with some of the folks there read some of their stories and and see with the Lord speaks to you and not can I just make a deposit in your life and and send you my book and you began Christian.
It'll really reinforce things for you and strengthen you can do that absolutely. I greatly appreciate that Dr. Brown awesome. Alright, so Stephen stay right there. All right. And Howard is going to come on get your info and I want to send you my book.
Can you began Christian and then we have time, visit the restored hope network and read testimonies of folks that that are found other aspects of change in their lives.
God bless you Stephen you're on the wonderful path before the Lord be strengthened all right nice to have Stephen's acquaintance okay 866-34-TRUTH.
Let's go to Steve in Connecticut. Welcome to the line of fire. Dr. Brown I very Christian concerning our Christian nation, God who works in you to willing to do it later and let my question is do you believe that God brings his his believers to a place of thank nation that he has for that. You know what a place of perfection or completeness for each individual Christian before he brings them all and in him asking that in the context of you know we have believers that seem very aching, barely changed when they leave this world, course name like their way down belying the Christian church. So is there point that that this is where I wanted you to bring me why you're here I'm here now bring in and understand the verse in Philippians 2 that's that's because you think that you, he's the one doing the work so she is the one who takes the initiative and use the one that does the supernatural work in us, but he does it with our cooperation and that's why many of Paul's letters is correcting issues and that's where he writes the Corinthian sale on the I'm not happy with you here. I'm not pleased with this am not pleased with that.
And that's why Jesus used parables about standing and giving account for lives.
That's why Paul talks with the judgment seat Romans 14. In second Corinthians 5 so the remake we make choices of all of the time and ministry. Sustiva wrong choices and Paul's prayer in first. This loan is 53 is that we will be totally sanctified, spirit, soul, body, but we will not be totally sanctified until we are resurrected and with the Lord forever. In other words, many of us will die far short of fulfilling God's highest purpose is for us that in many of our lives. Even though were saved and we know the Lord, our sins are forgiven that we will we will leave this world at different stages of immaturity or different stages of maturity of different stages of sanctification. So every day I want to be more like Jesus. I can honestly say there are some errors in my life. I really believe are more like Jesus today that I got say 47 years ago in other areas I can say I was more like Jesus in this area that area some years back so it knows your one keep growing, but sometimes we take three steps forward two steps backward.
So every day. Lord I want to grow or be more like your son working me to conform to the image of your son and take whatever steps you know to take because we in this world, even the highest sanctification we ever reach is still going to be imperfect right until resurrected out of this world.
We won't reach perfect sanctification.
So regrettably, many of us die only finishing part of our mission. Many of us die� God had 10 assignments first will get three of them done or his his goal for us was to reach a level of Christ likeness in that a scale of 1 to 10. We end up with three instead of a seven but the good news is he's our father. He's not damning us to hell over falling short, but you know, read what Paul writes in Philippians 3 because he's he's good is a goal he's going after something he's running after is not there yet is not there yet. He wants to keep running.
Keep going after the goal. So that's my heart. God is more of me you want to have this more you want to do in me is what more you want to do through me to fall here I am sending you say I don't miss tomorrow's show don't want to miss my interviews have scholarly Michael Joan might not